WEBVTT MER HASTHEIR STORY.EMILY: FOR SARA MULHERN, NINEYEARS OF SICKNESS STARTED ATSUMMER CAMP ON THE CAPE.>> KIND OF LIKE FLU-LIKESYMPTOMS.I FELT, I HAD A VERY HIGH FEVERAND I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG.EMILY: A LOCAL DOCTOR THOUGHTIT WAS A VIRUS.BUT IN THE YEARS THAT FOLLOWED,SARA WOULD BE DIAGNOSED WITHDOZENS OF AILMENTSOCD,CHRONIC FATIGUE.ARTHRITIS.DEPRESSION.BY HIGH SCHOOL, SHE WAS MISSINGMORE THAN ONE HUNDRED DAYS OFSCHOOL>> IT WAS REALLY THE SCHOOLPSYCHOLOGIST THAT SAID, "GOD,HAVE YOU LOOKED AT LYME?EMILY: TESTING REVEALED SARAHAD NINE OF THE 10 MARKERSINDICATING A LYME DIAGNOSIS; ACONCLUSION THAT SERVED TOMOTIVATE HER PARENTS, BOB ANDTINA.FOR MONTHS, DOCTORS TRIESEVERAL ANTIBIOTICS, BOTH ORALAND IV, BUT THEY WEREN'THELPING.>> THAT WHOLE ENTIRE YEAR, IWAS JUST RESEARCHING.I'D BE UP UNTIL 3:00 IN THEMORNINEMILY: THAT RESEARCH LED THTO THE ST. GEORG KLINIK INGERMANY.DOCTORS THERE BELIEVE THATWHOLE-BODY HYPERTHERMIATREATMENTS CAN RID THE BODY OFLYME.PATIENTS' BODY TEMPERATURES ARERAISED ABOVE 105 DEGREES, THECLINIC SAYS THAT KILLS OFF THEBACTERIA MAKING THEM SICK.AFTER MUCH THOUGHT ANDCONSULTING WITH SARA'S DOCTORHERE, SHE DECIDED TO TRY IT.>> I WAS LIKE, WOW I REALLY DOWANT TO CONTINUE MY LIFE AND ITHINK EVEN THOUGH IT'S SCARY,IT'S TOTALLY WORTH IT.EMILY: A FUND-RAISING WEBSITEHELPED WITH THE COSTS, RAISING$60,000 IN 30 DAYSARA PREPARED WITH SESSIONS INAN INFRARED SAUNA AND IVANTIBIOTICS.IN JANUARY, SHE MADE IT TO THECLINIC AND THROUGH TWO ROUNDS OFHYPERTHERMIA TREATMENTS.>> I LITERALLY FELT LIKE I WASON A NEW LEVEL.I WAS LIKE, I FEEL SO GOOD,EMILY: GOOD ENOUGH TO MAKE ATRIP TO PARIS WITH HER MOMWITHOUT ANY OF THE SYMPTOMS THATHAD BEEN DOGGING HER FOR YEARS>> WE HAD SO MUCH FUN>>THIS PART OF HER PERSONALITY